Although speech and language processing techniques achieved a relative maturity during the last decade, designing a spoken dialogue system is still a tailoring task because of the ...
A common criticism of database systems is that they are hard to query for users uncomfortable with a formal query language. To address this problem, form-based interfaces and keyw...
Eric Chu, Akanksha Baid, Xiaoyong Chai, AnHai Doan...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. By processing a text database with information extraction systems, we can define a variety of structured "relati...
A scalable object location service can enable users to search for various objects in an environment where many small, networked devices are attached to objects. We investigate two...
Geographic Information Systems (GISs) have become an essential tool for efficient handling of our natural and artificial environment. The most important activities in a GIS are qu...